AKDC means Advanced Kwin Decoration Client ;-)

with this im trying to make the life easier for graphical designers, giving them a efficient and optimized native kwin decoration code where they only need paste some pixmap and check some options.

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IMPORTANT README
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Today AKDC beta2 (will become ASSK(Advanced Skin Support for KDE)in a near future)is released
Project moved to berlios.de

credits---------------
thanks to alexandrie & treetog from pixstudio for their WB for windows between other for their awesome art work

-beta
1.A lot of speed improvements
2.Text Shadow color code implemented
3.App Icon Effects(colorize gamma gray transparent etc) implemented
4.right top corner adjust the size for number of buttons
5.Auto layout code implemented(you only have to paste the pixmap and the code do the rest)
6.Avatar code implemented(is just a name for a functional programable button in the decoration)
7.Code more readeable.
8.All graphic glitches fixed
9.text position code implemented
10.Some work in blending options(not functional until RC1)

-beta2
1.buttons drawing code rewrited from the scratch
2.auto layout calculation finished
3.a lot of bugfixes
4.some progress in very complex mask
5.optimized painter code for stretch pixmap(ported to drawPixmap)
6.finished disabled buttons code
7.begin the project of a new AKDC control center(maybe ready for test in rc2)
8.port image loader api to KPixmapIO(much faster)
9.finished code to handle themes with 2 different sizes(see second screenshots(is the same corona theme))
10. a lot of improvements on irregular size buttons

-beta3 Preview 1
1.change image engine to QPixmapCache
2.improvements in image's stretcher code
3.support for tool windows
4.begin the code to a new engine based on cairo(it seems to be faster than QPainter)
5.support xcomposite extensions for shadows and transparency
6. a lot of work done in blending engine
-beta 3 preview 2
1.new text and shadow api based on kdesktop shadow engine
2.icon app follow text position
3. auto truncate text when text is larger than window width
4.abort of qpixmapcache engine(is really unstable and hard to control)
5.support for kde 3.3 new buttons api
6.new control center that fit on any screen larger than 640x480
7.new theme based on alienmorph from alienware
8.speed improvements(is really fast now)

Tarballs are not updated :(

Lots of errors

Ok I tried installing this (as root). Firstly I had to rename luna.loT to luna.lo. Ran ./configure, then make. There was loads of warnings then half way through it ran configure again, got a little further forward before stopping on errors. Had to rename config.loT to config.lo in admin directory, ran make again and it completed ok it seems. Ran make install.

Went to look & feel in control panel and there was absolutely no sigh of the theme.

to get corona to work itś alwayes crashing when i choose it from the control center on my suse 9.1 please chack it out.

Re: i cant seem...

I'm having a similar problem...
After I installed the corona decoration, I checked the box that makes everything larger. A few minutes later I decided that I would prefer everything to be small, but when I clicked on 'decorations' in the control center, it crashed. I reopened the control center and clicked on 'fonts'... chaos... I now have only one virtual desktop, my taskbar has been removed from the dock along with the system tray, and I can only see the menu and client area of any window I open!

good, but still i don't understand why to have those ugly m$ and windows blinds like window decos?

Re: why?

dude, read at top of the page, i'm not a graphical designer, akdc is not a project to port wb decos to kde, i will not create any kind of graphic art for kde

i am a !!!!!!!c++ developers creating an advanced code engine for those who make graphic art, why???

graphics artits are not developers, so they can't do complex native decos for kwin, with akdc they just paste pixmap in a folder and akdc do all the code work for them( in rc1 you will see all tools needed for graphical designer and documentation )

so but why you are use wb decos anyway???

wb is a very complex(not efficient anyway) engine that let you do almost anything with your skins, so this is a good example to me and show what is needed for graphical artists(wb have a lot experience in this sector you know!) in other hand i need show to people what can they do with akdc and this look good(remember i will not loose my time trying to make art when akdc be ready artist people can do nice art !!!not me!!!)

to finish, if you don't like any akdc decos you have two choices

1. Don't use it
2. Make a nice art, send this art to me and in few days you can see your theme here in kde-look.org

redesign dialog

could you _please_ redesign the window decoration dialog, it doesn't fit on my screen with all those options shown at once, you should use submenus (advanced options... or something)
I'd really appreaciate that :)

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